Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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| the Blair Iron and Coal Company. Later
| a number of his countrymen sought him
| and murdered him for being a traitor to
| the cause of their strike. Several arrests
have been made.
Ar Fit. Edward, n. z, on the I'd, Mrs.
W. B. Lisle and one of her children were
killed by the cars.
GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN has written
that he will attend the reunion of the
Army of the Tennessee in Detroit, Mich,
September IA and Is. The original idea of
having prize drill Of the crack companies
of the country has been abandoned.
THE bill introduced in the Georgia Legis-
lature by VIM. C. Glenn to prevent mixing
of white and black children in schools and
providing penalties for violation thereof,
was passed by the House on the ID: the
only votes in opposition were those of two
negro members.
A MEETING of citizens of Washington
was held on the night of the I'd, at which
resolutions were passed calling on the
President to remove the District Commits
sioners. 1t was set out that they had per-
verified the laws, increased taxation, mixed
up the accounts of the water office and
proved their incompetency by their official
acts.
SECRETARY FAIRCHnD has a plan for
disposing Of a good chunk Of the treasury
surplus.
AN important labor reform movement is
being agitated in Holland.
THE indications are regarded as less
favorable for Turkey insisting upon Ferdi-
nand assuming the rulership of Bulgaria.
GEORGE W. NELLIs, JR., arrived in San
Francisco from New York on the Sd, hav.
| ing made the trip on a bicycle. He started
May "a, lost fifteen days by rough weather,
and lost twenty-three pounds in weight.
He averaged fifty miles a day. He made
the trip in the interest of sporting newspa-
pers.
COLONEL s. j. TILDEN, of Columbia
County, N. Y, will entertain President
Cleveland and wife a portion of next
month.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred in
Bitiro, a suburb of Messina, Sicily, on the
Sd, killing one person and injuring thirty,
besides doing much damage to property.
The occupants of the house in which the
explosion occurred were arrested.
DANIEL DESMOND, a clerk for the dry
goods firm of LIE BouteIlier Brothers, New
York, was arrested on the I'd, charged with
having embezzled during the past year
$12, 900, the proceeds of sales of laces.
PosTMAsTERs of the third and fourth
classes met in Cedar Rapids, Ia, ON the Sd.
F. II. Williams of Mechanicsville was
selected as delegate to the National con-
vention.
NICHOLS PANoLEDo, a Greek, confined
in the county Jail in San Francisco,
murdered his cell-mate, George H. Mar
shall, who was awaiting trial on the charge
of grand larceny, on the Sd. The weapon
used was pocket-knife.
THE National Civil-Service Reform
League met on the Sd at Newport, R. L.
After expressions of regret at the amount
of straight-out Democracy that had been
injected into the present National Admin
istration, George William Curtis was re-
elected president of the association.
AT special meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the New York Soldiers and
Sailors Home. held at Bath, N. Y, on the
ID, Treasurer Robe was ousted. An eX-
animation of his books showed him to be
$4,000 short. Robes friends will make the
amount good.
AUGUSTUS DAMN, noted professional
forger, wanted at Parker, OAK, and Peoria,
ILL.,, was captured at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the Sd. He had once been captured in
Texas for the Peoria forgeries, but escaped
while passing through Missouri by jump
ng rom the train.
CENSUS reports just completed in China
show a decrease of 81 ,000, 900 in the popula
ton during the last forty five years.
BOB GREENE, of Stone City, Ia, labor
ing under the delusion that some one was
following him with malicious intent, asked
to be placed in cell at the station-house
at Cedar Rapids on the night of the I'd.
He was accordingly locked up. AT five
O'Clock on the morning of the Sd he shot his
brains out while in cell. He was a wild
over and about forty years of age.
DR.. D. E. SALMON, chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, left Washin gton on the
evening of the Sd for Delaware and Ulster
counties, n. Y, to personally investigate
the outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneu-
monia among cattle in those counties, and
direct the work of its suppression.
GEORGE BIDwELL, the noted forger, was
arrested in New York, on the Sd, by order
of Inspector Byrnes, as he was landed
from a European steamer. Bidwell was
recently pardoned by the British Govern
ment on account of ill-health, having serv-
ed fourteen years in Dartmoor prison. He
was subsequently released by Judge Duff
fy.
BALTIMORE had $500, 900 fire on the 4th,
in which fireman lost his life.
BY the explosion of beer kettle at
Green Bay, Wis, ON the 4tb, six brewers
were killed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, it is stated, will
part of this month at the Democratic club
house, ON Slide mountain, in the Catskills.
The club men are Judge Alton B. Parker,
Judge Maynard, Public Printer Benedict,
and score or more of other prominent
Democrats.
MISS JOSIE HOLMES, late exchange clerk
of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincin-
natl, who has been in Jail in default of
bail in the sum of $4,000 on a charge of
aiding and abetting E. L. Harper in COM
uniting offenses against the National
law, was released on the Sd upon
her own recognizance, upon the recon-
mendation of District Attorney Burnet.
She will squeal.
GENERAL rains were reported from Kan
sas and Nebraska on the 4th.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has been heard from,
alive and well.
THE Mexican Government is pleased at
the improved outlook for increases in pub
lie revenues.
Mrs. CLEVELAND IS said to be taking
good deal of interest in the Vailed Prophets
ball at st. Louis in October.
LOSSES by the collapse of the California
wheat clique are estimated at about &c.
000,O0
GEORGE FORTH, notorious burglar and
diamond thief, was captured in Jersey
City, N. j., on the 4th.
DIR. MACKENZIE performed another ope-
ration on the throat of the German Crown
Prince on the Sd. He has advised the
Prince to sojourn for awhile in Scotland.
Mr.. LAURIER, the new Liberal leader in
Canada, is credited with desiring more
policy toward the United
States.
BooDLER MCGARIGLE is alleged to have
written out statement for Chicago in
terviewer at st. GATHERINGS, Ont.